Dr Susan Steinman, Director: Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy (CSESE), in the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg, is hosting a colloquium on the ‘State of the Social Economy of South Africa’ from 4-5 September 2013 in Johannesburg.

In-depth conversations with speakers and expert panels will ponder solutions to the issues facing the social economy in a quest to create job opportunities and alleviate poverty in South Africa. The focus will be on how the social economy can feed into to the National Development Plan through improvements to; the policy and the current regulatory framework, education and training, access to finance, and the implementation of policies.

The opening plenary on 4 September is a breakfast conversation with Minister Trevor Manuel, Minister of National Planning in the Presidency of South Africa starting at 7h00. Minister Manuel will set the tone on how to approach the challenges to be discussed over the two days.

Dr Susan Steinman Director Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy CSESE in the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg is hosting a colloquium on the ‘State of the Social Economy of South Africa’ from 4-5 September 2013 in Johannesburg In-depth conversations with speakers and expert panels will ponder solutions to the issues facing the social economy in a quest to create job opportunities and alleviate poverty in South Africa The focus will be on how the social economy can feed into to the National Development Plan through improvements to the policy and the current regulatory framework education and training access to finance and the implementation of policies The opening plenary on 4 September is a breakfast conversation with Minister Trevor Manuel Minister of National Planning in the Presidency of South Africa starting at 7h00 Minister Manuel will set the tone on how to approach the challenges to be discussed over the two days Time 7h00 - 16h30 Registration 7h30